The War on Cars Watch is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. The War on Cars Watch focuses on road diets, traffic calming and programs such as Vision Zero and Complete Streets as well as studies, court cases, and other news that affect motorists. Special commentary from NMA California Member Michael Jabbra is […]
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War on Cars Watch for November 6, 2019
• November 6, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Breathalyzers, Car Care, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, Driver's License, DUI/DWI, Eighth Amendment, Gas Tax, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Policing for Profit, PRIVACY, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Diets, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, Technology, Textalyzer, TEXTING, TICKET FINES, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, TRAFFIC STOP, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
Transportation Engineers Debate Vision Zero, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #564
November 4, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, ITE, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Scooters, TOLL, VISION ZERO
Last week in Part 1, we shared some posts made on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Member Forum that started a debate about the efficacy of the Vision Zero goals. The discussion in that thread — “A ‘War on Cars’? Let there be Peace!” — was too varied and interesting to fit into the contents […]
Pay and pray
Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered what happens when the law is enforced. People would drive into the city, and if they survived to drive away would get a ticket in the mail for violating a parking ordinance. After that they might not drive back. The beginning is a familiar story. A company came to elected officials with […]
The Consequences of the Intolerance of Vision Zero
Editor’s Note: This piece first appeared in March 2016 and continues to resonate today about the ecosystem of transportation. The Consequences of Intolerance: NMA E-Newsletter #373 Ecosystem: A system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment What is our transportation network of streets […]
Taxation, theft, and gouging
I knew a woman who habitually jammed parking meters to get free parking. It seemed like theft to me. Parking meters were supposed to encourage sharing of scarce real estate. Were. It doesn’t feel like theft any more, now that Massachusetts cities and towns are encourged to dig deep into drivers’ pockets. The new law […]
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